For future reference, here is a list of my favorite Achewood strips. Caution: some require context. I have felt this way except for the Computer Science. One reason I now eschew slogan tees (although I …

Make A Cost-Per-Wear Chart and embarrass yourself into wardrobe reasonableness!

An okay Dinosaur Comics reminds me that Bill Nye has a "consider the following" shtick. I spent many pleasant hours in front of Bill Nye the Science Guy. One year of high school I had …

Happy birthday to Leonard. He had a great party with acres of food. I really need to face up to the fact that Leonard enjoys homemaking more than I ever will. My parents predicted that …

Sepoy shows his students the truth about colonial administration - with a role-playing game! "Several came up to me afterwards and said that British rule in India came alive as the behemoth bureaucracy I had …

Clinton gave the inaugural Dole Lecture at the University of Kansas six weeks back. Lots of jokes (Clinton and Dole: vaudeville waiting to happen) and also many thoughtful passages. Now, here's my take on where …

I've read James Morrow's Only Begotten Daughter and Bible Stories For Adults and now I'm reading Towing Jehovah. Like, say, Stephenson, he loves naming things, "Father Thomas Ockham" for one. Lots of great analogies: "A …

I add fake ground beef to pasta or mixed-veggie dishes for the burst of protein. "You're wasting meat by adding it randomly as filler."

My grandmother has died. She was 85 years old and died of old age, basically, and was in pain for some time before her death. I did not know her very well (she spoke only …

Seems to me that Santa Clara county is doing the right thing vis-a-vis Cary Verse's re-registration. If your neighbors chase you from their community everywhere you try to live, re-registering (including your motel's renumbering of …